Tweet“I cannot recant.” Youcef Nadarkhani is a Pastor in Iran. He is in danger of being executed. Why? For what crime? His refusal to renounce his faith in Christ. Three times this week the court has brought him forward and ordered him to recant. Three times he has declared “I cannot.” When asked to “repent” [...]
TweetIn reflecting on the tenth anniversary of “9/11” and the Islamic terrorist attacks upon our country, I am struck by what, no doubt, others have noticed as well. I’ve been reading a number of books of late that revisit the atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich and have increasingly realized how familiar it all sounds: –A [...]
Tweet(Continued from last week…) “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” John 17:3 I am increasingly impressed with the centrality of the triune nature of God. It is foundational to almost everything. Because of it we understand why the universe is [...]
Tweet(Continued from last week…) After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. John 17:1-2 You heard it on [...]
Tweet(Continued from last week…) If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. 2 Timothy 2:13 (NAS) One of the most marvelous aspects of God is that He cannot deny Himself. That means: what He says and what He does must always be in accordance with His nature. This fascinates me and [...]
Tweet(Continued from last week…) “…go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…” Jesus, Matthew 28:19 The New Testament brings to us an explosion of revelation about God and His nature. For our purposes, that explosion includes pulling back the [...]
Tweet(Continued from last week…) In the progressive revelation of Scripture, we are given a number of hints that the Creator’s nature is socially complex. Several of those hints involve Divine personal manifestations who are addressed as “God” and yet they are distinguished from another person who is also called “God”. If we did not have [...]
Tweet(Continued from last Thursday…) When we look at what God has made, we find it brimming with things that are in relationship; a cosmos filled with a plethora of systems: parts and pieces that are relating to each other for a greater purpose. If the “heavens declare the glory of God”, then one would naturally [...]
Tweet(Continued from last Thursday…) Rom 1:20 “…since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.” This is a remarkable verse. When God created the cosmos, it was stamped with His image. In fact, it [...]
Tweet“Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.” Psalm 145:3 Much of our understanding of who God is did not arrive immediately with His first revelations to us. The whole of the Bible is a continual unfolding, a progression of revelations that opens the lens a little more [...]
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